'Trash'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese, you could try removing a car battery and taking it inside to warm up for an hour or two, then put it back in the car and try to start it then. That's what I did to start my housemate's Camry when we had five days of -30 weather in Minneapolis in '94 or whenever that was.
Of course that involves using tools in the bitter cold, so it might not be worth the trouble.
My Kroger has Knorr bouillon cube is two places - with soups, for $$, and with spanish labels in the Mexican section, for a lot less. Makes you realize how arbitrary and weird prices are. Goya dried beans are cheaper too, and in a different place.
I want to take a yoga class; I am just a big ball of tension, and I am losing flexibility. I used to be really flexible, and now...NSM.
The thing is, most classes I see don't fit my schedule very well -- they have morning classes, but I have to be at work by 7. They have afternoon classes, but I'm not a SAHM and am at school. And then they have 6 pm classes, but I get off at about 4, and once I make it home, I know that it is doubtful I will want to go out again.
I suppose I could stay at school longer one day a week and really get things done...but at about 4, I just want to book it away and have a cigarette.
Hmmph.
My Wegman's has dried beans in about five different places. There are a few kinds in the regular aisle next to the canned beans, then there are some in the "Nature's Pantry" section, some in the Indian section, and some in the Mexican section. Usually, I need to think to figure out where to find a particular bean -- French lentils will be in the German section, for some reason, while most other lentils are in the Indian section, black beans are in the Mexican section, and chickpeas are in the natural section.
Could you go somewhere else for the couple of hours between school and yoga, Erin? Library or coffee shop or something, just to not be home and settled.
I can get most of my staples at TJ's, but I am one person and really buy hardly any groceries. I get my produce either by CSA delivery or one of the local farm stands, chicken and eggs direct from the farm. There are specific things like garbage bags that I have to get from Raley's or Safeway, a few things like peanut butter I very much prefer to get from TJ's, but most things on my list I can get either place, so I more or less alternate. They're also very similar distance from me.
I just checked my bank account and there is a credit covering that bad charge. Yay.
Yay, Suzi!
I think Dixie was a thing in the 70's but Abita is pretty much our beer now. I'm fond of their root beer too.
We have a cheapie semi-farmers-market a few blocks from our apartment that has a Wall of Spices behind the cash register. 4-6 oz. bags of just about everything you can think of for 99 cents each. I love it.
And since the food everyone in our household is willing to eat involves a lot of beans, rice, pasta, eggs and dairy, and we're all constant fizzy water guzzlers, TJ's is a weekly staple for us. It's also my go-to work lunch source; I can get a week's worth of tasty and reasonably healthy lunches (mostly repackaged Amy's frozen items) for what it costs to buy a single day's lunch at work. The few times I've forgotten to grab a frozen lunch and had to buy one at the cafeteria recently, it's made me all surly and disgruntled.